Beautiful Botswana. Elephants,Hippos, Hyenas and Crocs ! Part 4

After a beautiful two days in Moremi it was time to go. The next stop was the Mogotlho Camping Site, just outside the North boundary of Moremi run by the Khwai Development Trust. This is a community run campsite. The campsite here aims to benefit the community, the funds it generates pays for medical facilities, houses and schools. The camp sites are used extensively by tour operators except for the one at Mogotiho which is for self driving visitors. You have to be pretty much self sufficient here as there are no facililities.

Leaving Moremi we drove through some wonderful scenery.

We took the scenic or "Harry Route" which basically meant following the river through the bush. It was a stunning drive, rich in game viewing with the most elephants we have ever seen. We drove North out of Moremi into Khwai where we stopped for bread.

Khwai was an interesting little village. The bread was freshly baked in the bread oven round the back of the shack, very tasty it was too.

Ever onwards, we rounded the corner and came upon scenes that looked just like pictures in a Children's Bible. Animals of ever kind by the river, absolutely an amazing scene and certainly one to return to!

Elephants in family groups and lone bulls were everywhere. We found a spot to set up our last camp of the holiday. Just far enough away from the river.

Making friends with the locals. We went for a little explore the hippos were getting friendly.

We hoped they stayed on their side of the river.

Someone was watching us. Hopefully he knew his place!

Everywhere you looked was something new.

Even the scavengers were fascinating. Around the next corner was this hyena in close pursuit of a pregnant female. Sadly I couldn't get the camera out fast enough but Den did get these pictures.

Finally as the sun went down we settled down for a really peaceful night. I really did hear a lion roar in the distance but no big cats came our way. I was secretly rather pleased that elephants and hippos stayed away from our camp.

Tomorrow, the road to Chobe paved with sand and the end of our adventure.

For those of you who have stayed the course with this blog, The Final Chapter, Part 5 to follow.